from The Gray Area:
1/22/20:
All you had to hear today at the Senate impeachment trial to understand what is happening was this statement by lead House Manager Schiff, "...We Can’t Leave This To The Ballot Box ...".
We have heard for the past 3 years from Democrats and the past year and 2 months from Democrats in the House, "if we don't impeach Trump, he will win in 2020". This is certainly more of the same. It is more of the same in impeachment as well - continue to investigate and impeach until we find something that will get Trump out of office. But, this statement is much different and worse.
Schiff is introducing the concept, long alleged, that Democrats cannot support elections they have lost or might again lose. That Americans should doubt the legitimacy of any election a Democrat does not win. That the Russians have control of our elections and there is nothing we can do - except impeach Trump and elect a Democrat!
This is all untrue. Even Barack Obama said the same thing. Our elections are too decentralized to be corrupted by anyone. Which is why he send his teams to 14 states in 2014 to try to nationalize those state election systems. Fortunately, not one state agreed. Plus, the CIA, FBI, Congressional & Mueller investigations showed that NOT ONE Vote was changed by the feeble efforts of Russian interference in 2016. And, by the way, the Russians have been trying to create chaos in our elections for 70 years without success. They had no success in 2016, except a desperate US political party created a false narrative that they did.
This is the most irresponsible a politician can get. To lie to the country and make up a dire national emergency that does not exist, for their own political self interest. Isn't that what they are claiming Trump did? Yet they are doing it right in front of us, all the while telling us it is not happening.
This is not a group of people we want running anything in this country or even participating in politics. Some should be in jail.
We want responsible people. Responsible people we might not always agree with, but that we believe they have the best interest of the country and its people at heart. This statement reveals the 21st century Democrat party is void of such people.
Why do I condemn the entire party? Because they are all voting in lockstep on this charade and on this message to America. They are hoping to get Republicans to join them, knowing you cannot get Republicans to run in 100% lockstep on anything. (See the four senators the Democrats are targeting and coercing.) By the way, not running in lockstep is a very good thing in normal times. But, not when a political coup is underway.
The Wall Street Journal today published an article, "Corrupt Purposes" in brilliant logic explaining the dangerous nature of this partisan impeachment on the country. This statement makes that worse.
The Washington Post came out today saying that this impeachment shows the world - America’s stability. Again the opposite of reality. It shows 'in'stability!
The country is in a precarious position in 2020. Pelosi says the country and the Constitution are in crisis. I agree. Obviously for a different reason. She says that because they are looking at 2 Presidential loses in a row - to Donald Trump! A crisis to Democrats for sure.
But, the unstable strategies of those desperate Democrats is the Constitutional crisis.
I believe their day of reckoning is coming!